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Twitter Auctioning Off Fancy Chairs, Espresso Machines, $10,000 Meat Slicer in HQ Clear-Out

At Twitter HQ, everything must go.
Matthew Gault
12.12.22
News

Elon Musk Is Setting Fans on Ex-Twitter Employees. It’s Getting Dangerous.

Musk insinuated that the former head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team was a pedophile. He is now getting targeted with violent and homophobic threats.
David Gilbert
12.12.22
Tech news

Government Scientists Have Made a Huge Fusion Energy Breakthrough: Reports

Reports say U.S. scientists are about to announce the first net energy gain from a fusion reaction in another step toward limitless clean energy.
Becky Ferreira
12.12.22
News

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says the Capitol Riot Would’ve Worked If She Organized It

“Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” the congresswoman said.
Paul Blest
12.12.22
brazil

Video Shows Brazilian Councilwoman Sexually Assaulted During Chamber Session

A male colleague grabbed the hand of Carla Ayres as she was walking past. He hugged her and attempted to kiss her in the middle of the session.
Nathaniel Janowitz
12.12.22
Games Opinion

The Horror That FromSoftware Lost Between ‘Demon's Souls’ and ‘Elden Ring’

The themes and mechanics are still there in places, but nothing has come close to the bleak religious survival horror of From's 2009 masterpiece.
Matthew Weise
12.12.22
Tech

CYBER: The Invisible Workforce that Makes AI Possible

AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent, it’s powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries.
Matthew Gault
12.12.22
Tech

Facial Recognition Researcher Left a Trans Database Exposed for Years After Using Images Without Permission

Researchers at the University of North Carolina Wilmington scraped videos of trans people from YouTube without permission to create a dataset aimed at stopping hypothetical terrorists.
Matthew Gault
12.12.22
Fashion

‘Slobwear’, Legwarmers and Flickr’s Return: Predicting the Trends of 2023

Grab your most hole-ridden jumper, slap on some Viva Magenta eyeshadow and join us for this year’s cultural forecast.
Lauren O'Neill
12.12.22
News

‘Gas Station Heroin’ Is Causing Intense Withdrawals. It’s Legal in Most States.

Tianeptine is an antidepressant. But it’s being sold in the U.S., especially at gas stations, as a dietary supplement and functions like an opioid.
Manisha Krishnan
12.12.22
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My Friend Is In Serious Debt. How Do I Help?

“She’d rather get food delivered three times a day than make one trip to the supermarket.”
Djanlissa Pringels
12.12.22
china

For the First Time, Chinese Protesters Are Standing With Uyghurs. Will it Last?

It took a deadly fire linked to China’s COVID curbs to draw national attention towards Uyghurs, but their larger struggle remains invisible.
Rachel Cheung
12.12.22
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